This resource is PERFECT for helping you with conferring and teaching reading to students in Guided Reading Levels A – O (DRA levels too!) I created it after years and years of having various papers and binders to carry with me during reading

Do your parents ask for iPad App suggestions? Use these pages to create flipbooks to hand out to parents! You can hand these out at curriculum night or any other time during the year. Parents will scan the QR codes to be taken to the app store where

Create a Math Vocabulary Wall in your classroom! 169 WORD CARDS INCLUDED! Perfect for Kindergarten through 2nd grade classrooms. The vocabulary words that I have included in this pack have been thoroughly researched. Check out my blog post below to

Teach your students to use their reading mats to keep track of the books they read during their independent or partner reading time. Students put a stack of books from their book box or bag on the green side of the reading mat to start. As they read

Download and print a sheet of QR codes for your classroom listening library! Students simply scan the codes with any QR App to watch books read aloud. All QR codes are links to YouTube videos via the website SafeShare.TV. The site enables your

I believe in giving my students choices and options. We love using our classroom word wall, but some students prefer this personal word wall to keep in their Writer’s Workshop folder. Included are over 400 words that your young writer might use

These wonder bubbles can be used in a variety of ways. They are perfect to incorporate into your Genius Hour or into your Common Core curriculum. First, decide which type of bubbles (no lines, dotted lines, single lines, colored, black & white)

Teaching your students to show their work using “numbers, pictures, or words" can be tough. When asked, many times my students will tell me that they have no idea what strategy they used or how to show their work. To help my students better use and

Download and print 16 different sheets of QR codes for your classroom listening library! Students simply scan the codes with any QR App to watch books read aloud. All QR codes are links to YouTube videos via the website SafeShare.TV. The site

Download and print a sheet of QR codes for your classroom listening library! Students simply scan the codes with any QR App to watch books read aloud. All QR codes are links to YouTube videos via the website SafeShare.TV. The site enables your

Introduce 1:1 iPads, a small class set or just one iPad to your class with this pacing guide! I have learned from experience the importance of teaching your students the skills to be able to handle the iPad BEFORE using apps to engage them in

Have you seen the idea of having a VIP table in your room floating around social media? Download this freebie to learn how I use the table in my room AND print signs to get your started!
What is included:
Three different color versions of VIP

Do your reading partnerships need support? Try out these fun wheels! This resource is best used to help your Reader’s Workshop partnerships succeed! I have included a variety of spinners to do this with.
The first spinner helps partners to decide

Teaching your students to use multiple reading strategies is tough. When asked, many times my students will tell me that they used the strategy of “sounding it out.” To help my students better use and be able to articulate use of multiple reading

Download and print a sheet of QR codes for your classroom listening library! Students simply scan the codes with any QR App to watch books read aloud. All QR codes are links to YouTube videos via the website SafeShare.TV. The site enables your

This resource is designed both to send home to families AND to use in the classroom to work on sight words. Send home the easy to follow parent letter explaining how to practice sight words at home along with the first 300 Fry sight words in

This packet includes OVER 400 words for you to use on your word wall or interactive word wall. The words are from Frys First, Second, Third and Fourth 100 word lists. The words are broken into groups of ten. There is a number in the bottom corner of

Create a Language Arts Vocabulary Wall in your classroom! 97 WORD CARDS INCLUDED! The vocabulary words that I have included in this pack have been thoroughly researched. Check out my blog post below to learn more about how that process worked.

Download and print a sheet of QR codes for your classroom listening library! Students simply scan the codes with any QR App to watch books read aloud. All QR codes are links to YouTube videos via the website SafeShare.TV. The site enables your

Teaching our young students accountable talk is important, but can be difficult. In the past, I have had signs posted around my room with several talking stems that my students never seem to use.
I decided to try something different. Instead of

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

I have been teaching for twelve years. I taught Kindergarten for five years and am now in my seventh year of teaching First.

MY TEACHING STYLE

I tell my students daily, "If you can teach someone else, than you have truly learned what I teach you." My goal is to be a facilitator of my students learning. I teach them with interactive lessons that utilize our 1:1 iPads. This helps them to be problem solvers, discuss with each other and truly enjoying their learning in our room!

HONORS/AWARDS/SHINING TEACHER MOMENT

Teacher of the Year 2009
National Board Certification in Early/Middle Childhood Literacy

MY OWN EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Bachelors in Early Childhood Education
Masters in Reading Education
Masters in School Leadership

ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

I enjoy presenting at conferences and consulting with schools on both using Twitter in the classroom and 1:1 iPads. I have a great time working with teachers and giving them the tools I use in my room so that they can successfully integrate technology in their rooms!